Re: Search based on file content in Nautilus

[Rui Tiago Cação Matos <tiagomatos gmail com>]

On 28 May 2011 16:39, Eliya Voldman <evoldman gmail com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm using rhel6. Using File Browser Nautilus 2.28.4 I could easily locate
> any file I'm interested in by it name.
> I'd like to use this File Browser to locate the file name based on it
> content e.g. based on some word in the text file.
> It doesn't work for me that way ...
> My question: does Nautilus support the search of file based on it content or
> only based on the name of the file itself?
> Thanks.

Nautilus itself doesn't provide that feature. But you can install
tracker[1] and then I think Nautilus can use it to do full text
searches. I'm not sure though since I don't use tracker.

Rui

[1] http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/index.html